The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumen 21Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1838 |
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... least expected ; while what should have formed valuable information is very in- distinctly indicated - viz . how the plans now in force for the sup- pression of this horrible system of assassination were originally adopted , and brought ...
... least expected ; while what should have formed valuable information is very in- distinctly indicated - viz . how the plans now in force for the sup- pression of this horrible system of assassination were originally adopted , and brought ...
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... least remarkable features they will sometimes murder travellers who had been persuaded to join their party , when encamped within a few yards of a village , or of another encampment of travellers . A remark- able instance of this ...
... least remarkable features they will sometimes murder travellers who had been persuaded to join their party , when encamped within a few yards of a village , or of another encampment of travellers . A remark- able instance of this ...
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... least . The difficulty , however , nearly vanishes when we reflect on the mode of travelling in India , described at the head of this article , and on the peculiar system of the Thugs . In the first place they seldom murder near their ...
... least . The difficulty , however , nearly vanishes when we reflect on the mode of travelling in India , described at the head of this article , and on the peculiar system of the Thugs . In the first place they seldom murder near their ...
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... least instance several public officers who have brought considerable annoyance upon themselves by too broadly bringing to notice the existence of evils , or the enormous extent to which crimes of the deepest dye , such as murders , gang ...
... least instance several public officers who have brought considerable annoyance upon themselves by too broadly bringing to notice the existence of evils , or the enormous extent to which crimes of the deepest dye , such as murders , gang ...
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... for the whole evidence of events long past is given so glibly , that it appears to bear strong marks of fabrication . But in fact the sessions part of the business is the least to be relied on : if that were Phansigars . 29.
... for the whole evidence of events long past is given so glibly , that it appears to bear strong marks of fabrication . But in fact the sessions part of the business is the least to be relied on : if that were Phansigars . 29.
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Página 426 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 427 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Página 427 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed— in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, aloue.
Página 427 - Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Página 428 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 427 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Página 378 - I much fear that this country (however earnestly she may endeavour to avoid it) could not, in such case, avoid seeing ranked under her banners all the restless and dissatisfied of any nation with which she might come in conflict.
Página 15 - We could not get him on, and after burying the bodies, Aman and I, and a few others, sat by him while the gang went on : we were very fond of him, and tried all we could to tranquillize him, but he never recovered his senses, and before evening he died.
Página 12 - A Thug considers the persons murdered precisely in the light of victims offered up to the goddess; and he remembers them as a priest of Jupiter remembered the oxen, and a priest of Saturn the children sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings ; he commits them without any emotions of pity; and he remembers them without any feelings of remorse.
Página 381 - Madrid have been rejected, leaves little hope of preserving peace. I have ordered the recall of my minister: one hundred thousand Frenchmen, commanded by a prince of my family, — by him whom my heart delights to call my son, — are ready to march, invoking the God of St. Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a descendant of Henry IV. — of saving that fine kingdom from its ruin, and of reconciling it with Europe.